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ISBN: 1842431498
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Price: £6.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 320pp
Rights: World
Pub. Date: September 2005

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

In a career spanning over sixty years, Eric Ambler wrote nineteen novels and was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for Passage of Arms in 1960. He was married to Joan Harrison, who wrote or co-wrote many of Alfred Hitchcock's screenplays - in fact Hitchcock organized their wedding.

Eric Ambler died in London in October 1998.
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ABOUT THE BOOK

Winner of the 1972 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award

Syria: 1970. Three years after the Six Days War.

Michael Howell - utterly apolitical and genetically programmed for survival. A Levantine mongrel of Armenian, Lebanese, Greek Cypriot, Syrian and "fractionally" British blood who possessed profitable businesses throughout the Middle East and an Italian mistress who doubled as the office manager.

So life was sweet for Michael Howell until one night in Damascus he discovered that his factories had become the clandestine operations base of the Palestinian Action Force - a fanatical terrorist organisation committed to the destruction of Israel - and he was caught in the middle with nowhere to run.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"...Our greatest thriller writer..." - Graham Greene,

"...Eric Ambler has been cited by John le Carré as the founder of the modern political thriller; Graham Greene was also a fan. With such recommendations, this timely reprint could hardly fail; nor does it, proving that even if the political landscape shifts, great writing remains firm. ..." - Alfred Hickling, The Guardian

"...Brilliant..." - The New York Times

"...it's obvious that Ambler paved the way for a crime sub-genre that still keeps a lot of lesser writers in Bentleys and Savile Row suits. Good stuff...." - Mark Timlin, Independent Online

"...The foremost thriller writer of our time..." - Time

"...Mr Ambler is a phenomenon ..." - Alfred Hitchcock,

"...The greatest spy novelist of all time..." - San Francisco Chronicle

"...well worth seeking out..." - Bruce Grossman, www.bookgasm.com